Fall/Winter 2006 Delaware ACDA Newsletter Volume 12 Number 1 What’s On The Menu? Martin Lassman President ntering Braddock, so we can add you to the mail- morning on November 4. E my sec- ing list. ond (and last) Voices In Song Workshop & Choral year as Dela- State Choir Festival Reading Session ware’s ACDA This is the only opportunity you and your Sponsored by The Musical Source, this President, I students will have to hear other choirs in workshop takes place in Washington, DC must say this is a lot of fun! I have a the state; to perform for excellent, uncom- on October 14, 2006. The clinicians will Board of fantastic people with great ideas promising conductors; and to have a pri- be Francisco Nuñez and Darren Dailey. and I am allowed to take credit for their vate workshop/clinic with one of the con- For more information, please call The Mu- hard work. Pretty sweet! So, what have ductors. If you have a desire for your mid- sical Source at 1-800-2-SOURCE. they dreamed up for me this year? dle or high school choir to improve, you have no option but to attend this event! I know the other chairs are working on State Children’s Honors Choir projects as well. In the meantime, please If you teach 4-5-6 grade students and do Music in Worship Reading Workshop do use us as your best resource. We are not provide this opportunity to your best Organized by co-chairs Betsy Kent and comprised of the best minds in the state on singers, you are doing them a disservice. Nicole Aldrich, the focus this year will be choral matters. We can handle any ques- Singers get an intense 24 hours with a on younger choirs in worship. Please con- tion and help with anything you need. Call great conductor and sing great music. Par- tact Betsy or Nicole for more information. us! E-mail us! We will be glad to help. ents love it, kids love it, and we directors love it! If you did not receive information Reading Sessions Email: [email protected] about it last year, make sure you contact We plan to offer music for Elementary, me or the Children’s Choirs R&S Co- Middle School, High School, Mens, Chairs, Kara Newham and Jeanmarie Womens and Jazz Choirs on a Saturday n a unique pairing of students and teachers, Linda Wardell will guide all through music activities and choral music for the beginning elementary I Song of the school chorus. Topics to be discussed and/or demonstrated with a children’s choir are Seasons: • choral warm-ups A Choral Workshop for • pitch matching the Beginning Treble • teaching early part-singing • achieving a uniform sound Student • breathing techniques Children and teachers will rehearse and perform a mini-concert at the conclu- November 4, 2006 sion of the workshop. Music selections will be applicable to a grade 4—5 9:00am – 12:00pm chorus. Music and materials will be supplied and taught to the teachers and University of Delaware students at the workshop. Amy E. duPont Music Building For more information, please contact Linda Wardell. Email: [email protected] Page 2 Delaware ACDA Officers and Repertoire & Standards Chairpersons President Editor & Historian Community Choirs Musicals & Opera Liaison Martin Lassman Barbara Swartz Michael Larkin Marji Eldreth Cab Calloway School of the Arts 140 Brennan Drive Wilmington Music School Cab Calloway School of the Arts 100 North DuPont Road Newark, DE 19713 4101 Washington Street 100 North DuPont Road Wilmington, DE 19807 W: (302) 454-2164 ext. 1113 Wilmington, DE 19810 Wilmington, DE 19807 W: (302) 651-2700 x179 Email: [email protected] H: (302) 475-5658 W: (302) 651-2700 Cell: (302) 893-0168 W: (302) 762-1132 Email: Email: [email protected] OR Email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Web Design Ryan Tibbetts 334 East Main Street, Apt. C-10 Jazz Choirs Private Schools Liaison Past President/ Newark, DE 19711 (see President) (see President-Elect) Vice President Cell: (302) 354-2001 Nicole Aldrich Email: [email protected] St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Junior High & Senior High School Choirs 701 S. College Avenue Middle School Choirs Thomas Sabatino Newark, DE 19713 Children’s Choirs Gary Smith Concord High School H: (410) 392-6136 Jeanmarie Braddock & H. B. DuPont Middle School 2501 Ebright Road W: (302) 368-0064 Kara Newham 735 Meeting House Road Wilmington, DE 19810 Email: [email protected] Hockessin, DE 19707 H: (302) 368-2794 Jeanmarie Braddock W: (302) 475-7254 The Independence School W: (302) 239-3420 Email: [email protected] Fax: (302) 529-3094 1300 Paper Mill Rd. Email: [email protected] President-Elect Newark, DE 19711 Margaret Anne Butterfield W: (302) 239-0330 Wilmington Friends School Email: jeanmarie.braddock Men’s Choirs 101 School Road @theindependenceschool.org Paul Gray Women’s Choirs Wilmington, DE 19803 Pencader Charter School (see Da Capo Editor) W: (302) 576-6764 Kara Newham 170 Lukens Blvd. Email: P.S. DuPont Elementary School New Castle, DE 19720 [email protected] 701 West 34th Street (302) 983-4012 University of Delaware Wilmington, DE 19802 H: (302) 731-9410 Student Chapter Liaison W: (302) 762-7146 Email: [email protected] Treasurer Email: [email protected] President (vacant) Caitlin Swords Music In Worship 2310 Northcliff Dr. College & Nicole Aldrich & Betsy Kent Jarrettsville, MD 21084 Da Capo Editor University Choirs Cell: (410) 937-5888 Marybeth Miller Paul Head Nicole Aldrich Email: [email protected] Wilmington Music School Director of Choral Studies (see Past President) 4101 Washington Street Department of Music Betsy Kent Advisor Wilmington, DE 19810 University of Delaware Director of Music Ministries Paul Head Cell: (302) 893-5687 Newark, DE 19716 Newark UMC (see College & University Choirs) Fax: (410) 658-9905 H: (610) 345-0323 69 East Main Street Email: [email protected] W: (302) 831-3397 Newark, DE 19711 Fax: (302) 831-3589 H: (302) 368-8364 Email: [email protected] W: (302) 368-8774 Fax: (302) 368-8705 Email: [email protected] Da Capo is the official newsletter of the Delaware ACDA chapter. The purpose of our newsletter is to generate interest in ACDA and the choral art, inform members of upcoming member- or ACDA-sponsored events, offer support and en- couragement to members, and provide helpful information and resources for members in all areas of choral activity. ♫ The Delaware ACDA Officers and Chairpersons welcome your comments, suggestions, and article contributions! Please email each chair for chair-specific comments/concerns, or contact the Da Capo editor at [email protected] . ♫ The views, opinions, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this newsletter are those of the author(s) and may or may not reflect the views of the editor or others affiliated with ACDA. Page 3 Repertoire to Start the Year (or for Any Time of Year) Gary Smith R & S Chair for Junior High/Middle School Choirs hope the fore I present a piece to my choirs, I spend my students or me. This rondo features I start of hours becoming familiar with the vocal contrasting B, C, and D sections that can your school parts, the piano accompaniment, and the be performed as solos or in small groups. year has been text so that my presentation can be so The Hebrew language is easy for students very pleasant. strong that the students have no choice but to learn. Last year, be- to love the music as much as I do. A com- ing my first year in a new school, I was bination of the right piece and effective Great Gettin’ Up Morning – Arr. Roger nervous yet excited to meet my new stu- initial presentation can really help make a Emerson (Hal Leonard) dents and begin this new experience. I was connection with the students early and set The driving accompaniment and simple facing a task many new middle school the tone for the remainder of the year. The harmony helps make it easy to teach and teachers face: recruiting students for your importance of this initial musical connec- fun for the students. I have taught this program. Being new to the school, it was tion must not be underestimated. Once initially by rote, then added the music later not just the incoming sixth graders I had to you make this connection, students will on. Part one and the optional descant get a recruit, but the seventh and eighth graders look to you and trust you to help them little high towards the end of the piece(up as well. In late August of last year, my achieve it again. to f2), but the parts can be slightly rear- class lists had a small smattering of names ranged to make it more comfortable for on them so I knew I had my work cut out The titles that follow are pieces that I feel students. This piece is available in three- for me. I was able to add some names to have been successful in making that first part. my lists as a result of our new student open connection. This list is by no means com- house just prior to the first day, but I knew plete, nor will each piece work for every SAB or Three-Part Mixed that the first week of school would really teacher in every situation. However, I Homeward Bound – Marta Keen/Jay be a crucial time to build my numbers. have taught each of these pieces and have Althouse (Alfred) had success with all of them.